Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-04-14
rho Departed bishop.

Il is not often in our history that the
mourning of our cityre-echoea beyond its
own borders, but the good man who now
awaits his rest, whose life was lived in our
very midst, who for forty-fve years,
shared the griefs, the Joys, the interests
Of Wilmington, and, bestowing the love
Of a spiritual father, far beyond the con-
fines of his own church and doing what
in him lay for all around him, was
prominent part Of ecclesiastical history,
primate of his church the Oldest bishop
10 the world, loved and revered through
out the nation and the Christian world as
we'll
Probably few intelligent Christians of
any country are unnoquninted with the
lofty individuality of his character, his
strenuous hold upon definite principles,
his unwearied efforts, his highborn cour-
tesy, his subordinstion of all desires and
impulses to plan of life conceived upon
the loftiest plane, which the mind of
man, modelled in the image of Creative
Intelligence, can grasp.
In Bishop Lee was nothing hasty, i'm
mature, forced or unconsidered. 1t took
nearly century to ripen this ideal of
venerable and sanity manhood. With it,
something goes which this era, certainly,
will not replace. Types, issues, interests
and men change. Eeoh century creates
it's own wants, and for the occasion the
man arises. He who hAa pessed away
fought the fight of his day with the zeal,
the honor, the rectitude of the
true soldier. His clear judging, delib
crate, conscientious spirit, viewed the end
from the beginning, took in oil the points
of conflict, then never for WEAKNESS OIL
faint. heartedness, swerved for a moment
Bishop Lees was the nerving exhilarat
ing faith, the faith of Puritans, crusaders
missionaries, martyrs, the faith of Atha
nasius, of LoyolA, of Knox, which neve
deserts a man in dying and i
equally support in the ia
more difficult ordeal of life. Perhsp
Of all characteristics this is the rarest ii
our amiable, eclectic, easy.going gener
alton. Bishop Lee was of the stuff t
save any cause to which he adhered. Ii
addition he had the reverence, the sens
Of propriety, the courtly regard for times
persons, occasions, which those of sue
sterling calibre often, rs it were pun
posely, disregard.
The city of Wilmington may mourn th
departure of SO sanity spirit, and tn
State may well feel impoverished by IL
loss of SO distinguished q citizen.
Not only was he always alive to the pc
sonal obligations which rest upon IL
citizen Of free state, but his reputatic
throughout his country and the worl,
cast lustre upon the State of his adophC
and tine city of his residence. All VI
knew him intimately loved him and
who were brought into contact with h
the broader arena in whose exercil
his high Office made him participai
whether they followed or opposed hi
accorded the utmost measure of respt
for his intellectual force, his modest be
ing and his holy life.
In his walk and conversation he was
living witness of the Christianity viii
no taught. To him it was no abstractio
but a vitalizing principle which permeat
his hfe and inspired both word and a
With those who are msrs immediate
afflicted ny 7tat wiz the people
~ rorisu s,.5 tie clergy and aity Of
diocese our people will deeply SYM
thize, but beyond that there will b.
sense of great public bereavement limit
neither by age nor race nor creed